Principles of Business, 10th Student Edition

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Overview

Dlabay/Kleindl's PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS, 10th EDITION, provides complete instruction in business concepts and skills students need in today's competitive environment. This market-leading introductory business text offers extensive coverage in major business concepts, including finance, marketing, operations and management. Students gain valuable information and skills for the workplace, as well as preparation for success in competitive events like DECA, FBLA and BPA. This edition correlates 100% to the Precision Exams Business Concepts Exam. MindTap for Dlabay/Kleindl's PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS,10th EDITION, is the digital learning solution that helps teachers engage and transform today’s students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. MindTap for this course includes the full, interactive eBook as well as auto-graded reading activities throughout the eBook for each lesson. Plus, it has student tools like flashcards, practice quizzes and auto-graded homework and tests.

Authors

Les Dlabay, Ed.D.

Les R. Dlabay, Ed.D. is Professor of Business in the Department of Economics and Business at Lake Forest College in Illinois. He has taught more than 30 different business courses in high school, community college, university, teacher preparation, and adult education programs. Dr. Dlabay has presented more than 300 teacher workshops and seminars emphasizing interactive learning strategies, including team projects and field research activities. His "hobbies" include a cereal package collection (from over 100 countries) and banknotes from 200 countries; these are used to teach economic, cultural, and political aspects of global business. In an effort to prepare students to do business in varied economic settings, Professor Dlabay makes extensive use of class assignments related to world hunger, poverty, micro-finance, and micro-enterprise.

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Brad Kleindl

Brad A. Kleindl, Ph.D., is dean of the School of Business at Park University in Kansas City, Missouri. He previously served as dean and professor of marketing of The Robert W. Plaster College of Business Administration at Missouri Southern State University. He has authored and co-authored six books and more than 60 articles and conference papers. Dr. Kleindl has served twice as a Senior Fulbright Scholar, during 2007 in Austria and 2003 in South Africa. He has taught courses in consumer behavior, marketing research, principles of marketing, Internet marketing, international marketing, and has presented at conferences and industry meetings across the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

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Table of Contents

Unit I: BUSINESS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT.
1. Economic Decisions and Systems.
2. Economic Activity.
3. Business in the Global Economy.
4. Social Responsibility of Business and Government.
Unit II: BUSINESS ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT.
5. Business Organization.
6. Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management.
7. Management and Leadership.
8. Human Resources, Culture, and Diversity.
9. Career Planning and Development.
Unit III: BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY.
10. Marketing.
11. Business and Technology.
12. Financial Management.
13. Production and Business Operations.
14. Risk Management.
Unit IV: PERSONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT.
15. Consumers in the Global Economy.
16. Money Management and Financial Planning.
17. Banking and Financial Services.
18. Consumer Credit.
19. Savings and Investment Strategies.
20. Insurance.

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Teacher Supplements

Instructor's Companion Website

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The Instructor Resources include PowerPoint® presentations for each textbook chapter, a Cognero® test bank, an Instructor's Manual, a sample syllabus, and Solution Files for the exercises in the text.

Instructor's Wraparound Edition

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The Instructor's Wraparound Edition features reduced-size student pages and includes teaching tips and suggestions for each chapter at point of use.

Student Supplements

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Principles of Business, 10th Student Edition

Overview

Les Dlabay, Ed.D.

Brad Kleindl